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SUNDAY, APR. 15, 1951

Washington Calfing— | Hint Red China To Take Over Formosa Soon

Mainland Seethes With Revolt; New British Step Awaited

By The Scripps-Howard Newspapers WASHINGTON, Apr. 14—Formosa soon will belong to Red’ China—unless events of war prevent. Here's the

way it shapes up—

Administration will let Britain go ahead with its campaign to admit Red China to United Nations. We

won't veto application.

Japanese peace settlement will confirm Cairo agreement, assigning Formosa to “China.” By Britain's interpretation, the Peiping regime by

then will be “China.”

Reds declined once before to settle on this basis,

seem likely to do so now. Chinese mainland is seething

with revolt—encouraged from Formosa—and liquidation of Chiang Kai-shek's regime might remove this pressure.

British have been carrying

on preliminary negotiations

through Indian ambassador at Peiping. Only thing that may upset this schedule is sudden change in war picture which might cause U, 8, to go all-out against China Reds—as MacArthur has urged.

Step Up Air Raids

INCREASING Ar activity of Chinese Reds may turn trick, decide one of major points in Truman - MacArthur dispute--whether we should bomb Manchurian bases, ; MacArthur held the war couldn't be won until Reds were attacked at their home bases. Administration believed this would bring Russia into the war—but gave MacArthur authority to do such bombing if Reds opened an air war on our troops. It looks as if that might be starting right now, judging by size of the air fleets Reds are sending over. If all-out air war comes, ¥ormosa sellout would hardly be palatable.

GOP Faces Snag

DEMOCRATIC leaders think Republicans won't get as far as they hope on the MarArthur issue. Democratic strategy is to try to convince people that what MacArthur and his supporters actually want is fullscale war in China—as start of World War III. They're confident that's not what majority in this country wants. In contrast, Democrats will hammer home that they're the “peace party.” Democrats will direct searching questions at MacArthur when he appears before congressional commit‘tees, designed to bring out consequences of his pro-

posals. But consequences of not following his proposals may,

meanwhile overwhelm Democratic strategy.

‘Internal Policy’

HOW COULD President Truman remove a United Nations commander? Security Council of United Nations authorized our government: to nominate commander in chief for United Nation forces last July. Mr. Truman named MacArthur and under the United Nations resolution had authority to make the change. Trygve Lie has referred to change-over as “a matter of internal policy” for Unijted States. Also, under international agreement, TU. S. had right te name supreme commander Allied Powers (SCAP) in Tokyo.

No Impeachment

PRESIDENT TRUMAN will not be impeached despite bushel baskets of telegrams and Jetters being dumped on Congressmen. Constitution provides that President, Vice President and all civilian officers of the U. S. shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” It gives sole power of impeachment to House of Representatives, which can act by majority vote. But that's only the start. : Accused man must then be tried before the Senate, sitting as court of impeachment, with chief justices of Supreme Court presiding. Two-third vote of the Senate fs required for conviction. Only one President has ever been impeached -- Andrew Johnson, who succeeded to office after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, The Senate failed, by one vote, to remove him from office, Some of the letters pouring in here demand impeachment of Vice President Barkley as well as President Truman. If this were done—which won't hgppen— Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas would become President.

Trial of Brehm

CAPITOL HILL will keep a sharp eye on trial next week of Rep. Walter Brehm (R. 0.), charged with accepting money from workers in his congressional office, a violation of Hatch act. If Rep. Brehm is convicted it will be sharp warning to colleagues that it's risky to accept even “voluntary” contributions from federal employees—a practice not entirely unknown here. When Gen. MacArthur re- . turns to the Capital next week—his first visit in 14 years—he won't get one of the hig brass keys the Dis_triet of Columbia commis"siomers generally present to

visiting dignitaries. D. OC. °

commissioners rig Sppaiuind > the President, so they're J ng It safe. es

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- tee in 80th Congress.

RFC Shakeup

LOOK FOR RFC Chairman W. Elmer Harber to remain with big lending agency under Truman-sponsored reorganization plap which has just cleared Congress. W. Stuart Symington, now chairman of National Security Resources Board, is slated to get top job as RFC administrator. But Harber can stay as Symington’s deputy. Harber, a millionaire oilman and banker from Oklahoma, is one of five RFC directors whose job will be abolished Apr. 30 when reorganization plan becomes law. He was appointed by President Truman last October, hasn't figured in RFC scandals uncovered by Ful-

bright Investigating Committee. Cotton Black Mart DEQ NOW is that Price

Admiutstrdator Michael DiSalle has dropped plan to impose dollar and cents ceilings on live animals at the farms.

Instead, ceilings will be im-

posed at slaughter house level, DiSalle’s become convinced enforcement of ceilings at the farm would be impossible. This doesn't mean price ceilings on raw cottoA will be dropped. DiSalle has his back up, is determined to stick with them unless Congress votes repeal or new cotton crop sends spot prices well below ceilings. Cotton futures already have dropped, but cash prices are staying at ceiling. Note: Black market in cash cotton is said to be operating by means of upgrading product.

Delay Message

TRUMAN concentration on MacArthur problem has delayed message to Congress on renewal of wagesprice control sections of Defense Production Act. Message isn't likely to reach Congress before late next week. Hot parity issue is still unsettled. Defense Mobilizer Charles. Wilson has recommended that parity for farm products be frozen at Jan. 15 level. Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan is opposed. President Truman hasn't made up his mind. However, Wilson proposal stands little chance of approval by Congress if Mr. Truman recommends it. Farm bloc is determined to keep parity as is.

New Type ‘War’

VOICE OF America broadcasts and Russian efforts to jam them are being called “electro-magnetic war” by technical experts. When House was debating appropriation for Voice, testimony showed that Russia's stepping up construction of jamming stations to garble cur propaganda, beamed toward iron curtain countries. . It's becoming costly and widespread warfare. Experts admitted Russia can neutralize anything set up, could destroy telecommunication throughout world. House seemed to have this in mind when it cut $97.5 million fund requested by Voice to $9.5 mililon. Senate's expected to boost this figure.

Pat for Hoosier

FORMER Republican Congressman who helped draft Taft-Hartley law is now tcp liaison man on Capitol Hill for Economic Stabilizer Xrie Johnston. He's Gerald Landis of Indiana, a member of House Education and Labor CommitUnited Mine Workers in Indiana helped defeat him on orders of John L. Lewis. IL.andis contacts Republican Congressmen for Johnston, as Joseph Casey, former Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts, did until he quit to

“gaye embarassment” after in-,,

vestigation of his government ship deal. Since them, Johnston's Demicratic liaison man has been Steve Angland of Mohtana. Note: Pennsylvania's Sen. James Duff says there's no truth to report that he'll “see hell freeze over before Sen. Robert A. Taft (R. 0.) gets any Republican delegates In Pennsylvania next year.” Duff says Sen. Taft will get some Pennsylvania delegates if he fights for them. No signs of fight yet, and Sen. Taft supporters are uphappy be-

tion has been set up, think it's time for Ben. Taft to start lining up delegates. {

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Kremlin Reported at Loggerheads Over Shift Of Peasants to Cities on Farm Collectives

Stalin Expected To Play the Hero

By GORDON CUMMING Compiled from the Wire Services There are definite signs of trouble inside the Politboro as a result of the latest Soviet attempt to reorganize the nation's ragged peasantry. William H. Stoneman, special correspondent of The Indianapolis Times reported from Paris today. ; Since early 1950 the Soviet government has been regrouping small collective farms or “kolhozi” into larger units and resetting peasants in new towns or ‘villages connected with the new super-kolhozi. By the end of 1950 the first stage of this colossal reform had cut the number of Soviet collective farms from 252,000 to 123,000. Now, with the spring sowing campaign of 1951 getting under way, it is clear that widespread disorganization and demoralization have resulted from this typical Soviet attempt to change civilization overnight, Mr, Stoneman reports. At the same time great confusion has arisen regarding when, how and to what degree the government is going to carry out the second stage of the reform—resettlement of the peasants: themselves, Publicly Rebuked Central figures in the Poliboro controversy are Andrei Andreev, oldtime boss of Soviet agriculture who was publicly rebuked in February, 1950, for his moderation, and Nikita Krushchev, who was charged by Stalin with the job of driving through the new form. Now Kruschev himself appears to be in the doghouse because of his excessive zeal. On Jan. 18, 1951, Kruschev made a long explanation of the new reform to a group of kolhoz leaders in the Moscow region. It was assumed that he spoke for the Kremlin. Pravda did not print his speech until Mar. 4, which was an insult and a warning in itself. Then on Mar. 5, the next day, Pravda added that Kruschev’'s speech was not to be regarded as a statement of the Politboro’s policy but only as material for “discussion.” The government is still completely at sea regarding the means by which it is going to construct the new dream towns which it has decided to have built. Short of Materials According to its own official publications and public pronouncements by Soviet bigwigs it is already desperately short of building materials of all kinds and has no chance to carry out a massive new housing construction project. If it depends on the peasants themselves to build their new homes, without providing them with materials and machinery, the peasants will wind up either in the villages where they have been living all of the time or in miserable barrack towns, If the new scheme fails, comrade Krushchev will be the goat. Stalin, now writing a gigantic political opus which is scheduled to be the new testament of the revolution, will undoubtedly step in to “save the peasantry” and be the hero of the piece.

Italy

ITALY has urged the United States, Great Britian, and France practically to renounce the World War II peace treaty which placed a ceiling on that country’s armed forces, it was learned in Washington yesterday. The Western powers have agreed informally to take no immediate action on the Italian request. They want to wait for any Big Four foreign ministers’ talks which may develop out of the stalled deputies’ conference under way in Paris. But informants said the three Western powers would begin active consideration on ways to allow Italy to increase her armed strength above treaty limits if Russia refuses to allow a Big Four check on the inflated strength of Hungarian, Bulgarian, and Ru-* manian armies. The 1947 Italian peace treaty limits Italy's army, navy, and air force to 300,000 men. Italy also is barred from possessing bombing planes, tanks, atomic weapons, major fortifications

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Timesmap shows the dependency of the United States upon foreign defense materials. It is based on data reported by Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson to President Truman. As rearmament begins to snowball, Mr. Wilson warns, our dependency will become even greater. A bright note is that Soviet Russia and her satellites ship the United States only 3 per cent of its imports.

along her northern borders, and other military restrictions.

Washington, London, and Paris are seeking to discourage talk about treaty revisions —formal or informal—now. Existence of the Italian plea lent new importance to the Big Four deputies’ talks._ :

U. 8. Minister to France Charles E. Bohlen left Washington yesterday en route to Paris to resume his role in the talks. He undoubtedly has new instructions from Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Some diplomats believe next week's Paris parley may be crucial in determining whether the Big Four will meet.

Big Four

THE big four deputies ended their sixth week of negotiations at Paris yesterday still deadlocked on the agenda for a meeting of foreign ministers. They meet again Tuesday. “Things are still in a state of flux,” one Western spokesman commented.

Yugoslavia

UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY GENERAL TRYGVE LIE promised last night that “the United Nations will not fail Yugoslavia” if there is a threat to peace in this part of the world. In a speech prepared for a dinner “in his honor at Marshal Tito's white palace, Mr. Lie also foreshadowed increased economic assistance to Yugoslavia from the United Nations. In reply Cabinet Minister Milovan Djilas pledged that Yugoslavia would continue to support the United Nations efforts to preserve world peace. Mr. Djilas represented the absent Premier Marshal Tito, recovering from an illness. Mr. Lie's promises of aid to Yugoslavia were indirect and delivered in the same careful language of all his statements during his three-day stay here as guest of the government. No word of what he discussed with Marshal Tito and other government leaders has leaked out. Mr. Lie praised Yugoslavia for supporting the United Nations and for its “record of resistance to aggression and to outside domination in war and peace.”

West Germany

THE U. 8, threatened. today to halt ECA aid shipments to West Germany unless German firms stop selling strategic materials to the Communists. Howard Jones, acting director of the U. S. High Commission in Berlin, said in an official statement that the ECA administrator was directed to “refuse delivery” of materials which ECA countries turn into strategic commodities and sell to Communist countries. The warning followed. what American officials described as “the first successful ecrackdown” on the huge illegal flow of goods from Western Germany to the Communist-run

East Germany, in which Berlin has served as a funnel. The West Berlin prosecutor's office has arrested some 10 persons believed to have a hand in the trade,

United Nations

THE Arab-Asiatic group in the United Nations scheduled a secret meeting for today to plan a possible new peace bid to Red China. Indonesia’s Chief Delegate L. N. Palar was expected to propose that the group send an urgent appeal to Red China suggesting that negotiations with the United Nations be re-

. sumed at once.

This possibility led t h e Philippines, an on-and-off member of the Asiatic caucus, to announce that it will not participate in the meeting. A Philippines said his country is in no position to offer advice on the subject of a possible appeal to Red China when its troops are fighting “the Chinese aggressor.” Observers said that the, Philippines feels, along with the United States, that a new appeal to Red China to negotiate, in the face of Peihing's scornful silence toward the peace feelers sent out by the

United Nations’ good offices committee, might smack of appeasement. Iran

BRITAIN reinforced her Persian Gulf fleet yesterday as new rioting broke out against the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. at Abadan and parliament extended martial law to that oil rich province. Strikers surrounded the British owned company's refinery at Abadan in Khuzistan province and two persons were reported killed in a sympathy demonstration in the neighboring province of Isfahan. The two month extension of martial law came as two more British warships steamed through the Suez Canal en route to the trouble zone to join the frigates Wild Goose and Flamingo and the cruisers Gambia and Mauritius. Parliament, called into new extraordinary session last night, was expected to take a vote of confidence on the policies of Premier Hussein Ala who first proclaimed martial law in the oil fields in hope of ending the wave of disorders.

Greece

GREECE went to the polls today to elect town and village mayors and councils but despite the local nature of the election observers hope it will provide a clue to present political alignments. Some observers believe the 2 million men and women eligible to vote will demonstrate that the drift away from the right and toward the center and moderate left which marked the 1950 general elections is still under way. Others believe there has been no significant change. This is no eléction on which

‘pected for at

spokesman’

to wager a reputation for political forecasting. There has been no other comparable voting since 1934 and it will also be the first election since that time in which Greek women have participated.

Indicative returns are not exleast two or three days and complete returns not for a week or 10 days. No incidents are expected.

Lebanon

LEBANON'S first parliamentary elections in four years took place today after violent pre-electoral riots in which 17 persons were killed and more than 50 injured in local feuds. The election itself has no clear-cut national issue. At least 80 per cent of the old parliament is expected to be re-elected, assuring the continuance of the present conservative government. . There is no issue with Communists, who were rejected by all other groups in the forma-

~” tion of big party lists.

The few communists running as independents are expected to lose their deposits of 5000 Lebanese pounds ($2250) each, which must bé forfeited if a candidate fails to collect at least 15 per cent of the votes cast,

Bolivia ONE person was killed and at least 10 were injured today in a clash between national police and members of a rightwing revolutionary movement after officials announced the discovery of a plot to overthrow the government.

The clash occurred outside La Paz where followers of Victor Paz Estenssoro, head of the rightist National Revolutionary Movement, was scheduled to arrive from Argentina where he has been in exile.

Paz Estenssoro, it was announced later, was forced to leave his La Paz-bound Braniff Airlines plane at Asuncion, Paraguay, by order of the Bolivian government.

On Inside

Italy's action in dropping parachutists into Albania is playing into the hands of the Communist regime of Enver Hoxha in the same way as Greek claims to acquire southern Albania. The wobbly Albanian Communists gain a new lease on life as ‘“defenders of natienal independence” each time Italy or Greece makes a pass at the little Stalinist nation on the Adriatic. » = 5 ARGENTINE PUZZLE: Peron recently asked Argentina's people to give moral and material support to his atomic energy research. A series of donations flowed into government quarters. Peron ordered the money returned, saying he'd let the people know in due time what he meant by his request,

MacArthur Welded East to West in Japan And Left Imprint of Democracy’s Stamp

By KEYES BEECH SEATTLE, WASH. Apr. 14 (CDN)-History may record that Gen. Douglas MacArthur's greatest achievement wasn't the waging of war but the remaking of a nation. He has left his imprint on Japan. For five years he has presided with lofty benevolence over a shotgun marriage between East and West. Whether this marriage will last after he goes is a question. If it does, it will be a monu-~ ment to him>-his greatest success, If not, it will be his greatest failure. Gen. MacArthur-is confident democracy has come to Japan to stay. A good many others wonder about that. Returning to Power The real-test won't come, of course until after the peace treaty when Japan is on its own again. As much on its own, that ig, as any country can be

with foreign troops on its soil. .

It is already agreed American

‘troops will stay.

Every farmer, fisherman, whitecollar worker and laborer in Japan has felt the effect of Gen. MacArthur's reforms. They have free elections to oust politicians who attempt to deprive them of the bene-

‘fits of those reforms.

But Japan rejected democracy onceé before - in favor of totalitarianism, It seems unlikely Japan's former ruling class, which is rapidly returning to power with the Yoshida government, will attempt to turn back the clock all the way. Such measures as land reform are too firmly entrenched. ‘But scuttling of other reforms {is almost certain. Among the’ chief targets of the conservatives are civil service laws intended to break bureaucracy's stranglehold on government. Backward Step

Another is anti-trust legislation calculated to break the

Giisaid

Zaibitsu's (family monopolies’) clutch on the national economy. The greatest backward step was taken by MacArthur himself although perhaps through no fault of his own. He himself wrote the clause into Japan's constitution renouncing war and forever stripping Japan of its army, navy and air force. Nine months ago after the outbreak fn the Korean War he created a 75,000-man national police reserve. This was the first step toward Japanese rearmament. Japan's renunciation of war didn’t mean it didn’t have the right to defend itself, said Gen. MacArthur, 5 But the greatest danger t democratic Japan probably lies

“without, not within Japan. Left

to its own devices Japan might with some alterations continue on the democratic path Gen. MacArthur has staked out. ‘But with all Asia In ferment

it is unlikely Japan will be let alone. Hope that Japan might become the Switzerland of the Pacific exists only among the most dreamy-eyed leftwingers. Whether Japan likes it or not, it's irrevocably committed to America's side in the war against communism. Linked with U., 8, Industrially the most powerful country in the Far East, Japan is also America's most powerful ally. Its war potential is already being used by the United States Army which has given Japan more than $200 million in “non-military” war orders, ; Japan’s industrial machine is: the key to Communist conquest of Asia. With that machine geared to Communist doctrine the Red revolution could be

"stepped up immeasurably for

Asia's backward billion. - Gen, MacArthur knows this, which is why he had to swallow his own constitution.

Our Fair City

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Bradford's Trip

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Clark Backers Promote Holiday % To Smooth Campaign Route - '*

By THE TIMES STAFF REPUBLICAN forces backing Judge Alex Clark for, mayor have taken unique steps to eliminate one big thorm

from their primary campaign—James L., Bradford, power- . ful figure in GOP machine here many years. .

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Mr. Bradford took off quietly for Florida Wednesday morning and will stay there until May 8—election day, Purpose of month-long holiday had little to do with personal reasons, such as rest, vacation or sunshine. =

————rnay.

Trip was part of strategy by Judge Clark's backers

to parry opposition plans to zero in on Mr. Bradford as

campaign target.

Reports prevail that opposition (Ceril S. Ober forces)

would tie Clark campaign to old Bradford machine, which had been accused of ‘‘bossism” in past elections. Clark supporters now can say: “Mr, Bradford is not in this

campaign.

journ.

" " 2 The Mud. Flies REPUBLICAN mayoralty race is heating up. Candidate “Cy” Ober dealt first public blow last week in speech designed to fasten blame for Robert Austin Watts’ crimes on opponent Judge Alex Clark. He brought up somewhat garbled version of Judge Clark releasing Watts on low bond few months before Watts started on sex crime spree which finally sent him to electric chair. Most people who know facts,

including those not actively,

supporting Judge Clark, call this a low blow. It's true Judge Clark did free Watts on $250 bond, but facts are these: Watts was brought in on charge of assault and battery with intent to rape, but woman vietim could not positively identify. With such weak evidence there was no justification for high bond. Judge Clark set bond and sent case to Grand Jury. However, in -interim before Grand Jury was to act, Watts went before Judge Clark on Peeping Tom charge. Judge gave him 60 days on State «Farm. First case was then in hands of Grand Jury, and any revoking of bond or other moves were out of Judge Clark's hands. Interesting sidelight is that 1947 Grand Jury never did (and still hasn't) returned indictment or any other report on case, - If it had, Watts might have been put in criminal court hands and might never have slain two Indianapolis women,

# = = No Man's Road THAT LONESOME stretch of White River Pkwy. near W. 16th St., where new concrete laid with U. S. 52 ends, looks more orphaned every day.

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Tossed for months from city to state to road builders to bridge builders, it's still as pockmarked as No Man's Land. Unpaved soil now is begging, t8‘refuse to shave smooth under blade of bulldozer, and motorists bounce onto it from new pavement. It takes no crystal ball to predict some motorist, unfamiliar with “booby trap” ahead, is going to have bad accident there. ~ ~ w Johnnie Parsons, winner of 500-mlle race last year, has been warned to confine speeding to oval tracks. The hand-

some Californian was nabbed.

by Pennsylvania police last week for buzzing Pennsylvania Turnpike at 100 mph in his Cadillac hardtop convertible, ® = = > WHEN PROSECUTOR'S office got Western Union to cut off race reports to bookies recently, they were wasting motion. Wires had been leased by Capitol City Publishing Co, which in turn flashed info to bookies. But when phones were pulled out. of bookie joints week earlier, bookfes lost need for wire reports and had already cancelled service.

. nw BOTH MAYOR BAYT and

Leroy J. Keach have denied...

that latter plans to resign as ‘Safety Board president, right

"after election either primary

or general. Reports of Mr. Keach's departure had - persisted because he had taken post as favor to late Mayor Feeney and had been supporter .of still-Chief Rouls. -— 4

See, he’s in Florida.” . Question arose about who's paying for Mr. Bradford's soAnswer appears to be Mr, Bradford himself,

" tJ . Re MOUNTAIN {is coming to Mohammed. Policy of lottery operation has always been to have bet"

tor go to lottery joint to pick .

up his ticket and lay down money. Current erackdown

against ticket joints has made

this difficult. One major lottery operator ° has circumvented this by purchasing fleet of cars (between five and 10) which are driven to homes, offices or plants of ° old customers. Bets are picked up there. Indication of profit in ticket gambling lies in his investment

. ~ ~ " Good old H. 8S. T. a That was comment of bookies, harassed by heat of headlines, when President “core nered” Page 1 with I'affaire MacArthur.

“We don’t eare If he hogs it -

all” they chuckled. " ® =

Big Business

LOOK FOR a Hoosler-born

trucking industry to become largest in nation.

Hancock Trucking, Inc,

with home office in Evansville

and a main branch here, is almost sure to win federal approval on petition to open routes to West Coast and New Orleans. This will boost it from roughly 12th place in national size to tops in both units and operational procedure. Approval by government is expected within two months to ~ year as all angles are checked. Request was fought by rail roads and other trucking firms, but Hancock was informed its case (which cost $100,000 to prepare) was best ever pres °

~ sented before deciding body.

» ” » STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT engineers are * checking with city police and soliciting citizen opinions on effectiveness of “Walk” and “Don’t Walk” signs at down town intersections. : ’ Results so far show ime provement in foot traffie Some pedestrians still fidclefoot against lights, apparently eeding constant reminders. Police believe stronger ordi nance against jaywalking would help. . One complaint against signs has been that in certain light, they are difficult to see. Department engineers are mulle * ing possibility of using differént color neon tubing, may soon run additional tests to de termine best combinations. » = Ld REPORTS persist that Army and/or FBI are checking Camp Atterbury for material shortages in PX and/or fund shortages in officers’ club. FBI . denies probing PX, and stays mum on officers’ club. Army > says officers’ club deficit of over $20,000 has been explained “to full satisfaction.” But queries persist.

» w “ As far back as police and criminals, can recall, bonding agencies have been sole oos'’ cupants of half-bloek stretch on 8. Alabama St. kmown a8 “Bondsmen’s Row.” New busi ness recently moved In, It's & . barbershop, but wags say a clip joint in that stretch is me novelty.

. = = | Orchids to Local 8 of Ameri ' can Federation of Musicians and nine umiom bandleaders here. They've agreed to provide music, free, for weekly - dances sponsored by Services .. men's Center. Bands to make gratis musie * are led by: Earl Newport, Bill ’ Moore, Nick Cralg, Walt Jack: son, Buddy Webber, Ayars Lamar,’ Paul Alberts, Denny Dutton and Ted Campbell.

» - w . WERE WINTER'S on slaughts less severe in Hamflton County than here? : It would seem so to drivers who go on Fall Creek Rd. past Geist's Reservoir and inte Hamilton County. Highway is blacktop all the way. Marion County's section 1s riddled with chuckholes, but as soon as county line is crossed highs © way becomes smooth and ume

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